Mode of converting- a rotary into a double-acting reciprocating motion



UNITED STATES PATENT ERICE.

CHRISTIAN WILLSON, OF BEDFORD, NEW YORK.

MODE 0F CONVERTING A ROTARY INTO A DOUBLE-ACTING RECIPROCATING MOTION.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 1,356, dated October 5, 1839;Antedated April 5, 1839.

To all 'zu/wm t may concern.'

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN VILLSON, of the town of Bedford, county ofWestchester, and State of New York, have invented a new andusefulMachine for Converting a Rotary into a Double-Acting ReciprocatingMotion or other Purposes; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description of the construction of the same andits operation.

It consists of a frame five feet in length, twenty inches in width, andseven inches in depth and marked A A A A in the drawing. This frame lieslevel; upon it at an equal distance from each end are placed two shaftsmarked B, B. Upon each of these close to the end,) is placed a cog wheelmarked S, S, 1% inches in diameter, and these shafts are so placed (inthe center of the frame) that these cog wheels work together. Upon thesame shafts and close to each of the cog wheels is placed a jet ormortise wheel 12 inches in diameter marked C, C, and upon th other endof each o f these shafts is placed a cog wheel D, D, four inches indiameter. Upon each side of these center shafts and at a proper distancefrom them is placed another shaft marked E, E, two inches in diameter,each having a cog wheel upon them 17 inches in diameter marked R, R,which are placed so as to work in the small cog wheels upon t-he centershafts.

The jet wheels are so placed upon the center shafts that a line drawnparallel with the upper surface of a jet on one wheel will strike thecenter of the space between the two jets upon the other. Between the twojet wheels and nearly at the top of them another shaft passes marked,I-I, having nearly at the end and directly over the jet wheels a shortlever bolted crosswise marked K, upon the under side of it by which theyare connected together the jets acting alternately upon each end of thelever. The two outer shafts are east iron E, E; upon these the ropes arewound to which the weights are attached. The weights are wound up bymeans of a small cog wheel placed upon a shaftweach marked E, F, andraised nearly to the top of each of the large wheels R, R, and meshingin them the end of these shafts projecting out far enough to put a crankon marked I. In the middle of the shaft marked H is an arm or leverplaced upright marked M. Across one end of the frame (and raised aboutsiX inches) is placed an other shaft marked G. In the middle of thisshaft are two arms marked N, N, one is placed upright-and the otherextending out beyond the edge so as to form the right angle.

The two arms placed upright are connected together by a rod marked Lpassing from one to the other and fastened in the top of each. T showswhere it may be attached to a churn or any machine it may oe applied to.Upon the end of the shaft marked I-I and A)utside of the frame is placeda pendulum marked P by which the motion is regulated.

W is a cord by which the machine is .stopped or started at pleasure.

Vhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is-The herein described mode of converting a rotary into a double actingreciprocating motion by means of two cogged, jetted, or mortise wheelsmarked C, C, moving in opposite direction and acting alternately withtheir teeth upon the pin or levier marked K fastened upon the shaftmarked I-I so as to communicate a double acting motion to the leverplaced upon the shaft the whole being combined and operating in themanner herein set forth.

CHRISTIAN VVILLSON` Witnesses:

THOMAS H. RAYMOND, JOHN CLARK.

